And that’s why it’s all the more impressive that someone on the RC Groups forum has used a 3D printer to make a fully-functional scale model of a Boeing 787’s GE-built turbofan jet engine.

This guy decided that what he wants to build with his printer is a jet engine ... to a model aircraft, this thrust would be enough to taxi it down the runway. If you still think 3D printers ...

GE creates a little-engine-that-could using an advanced metal 3D-printing technique and then put it through testing like a full-size engine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

He’s designed a rather awesome jet engine in 3D Software, and printed it on his UP Plus printer. The engine itself is a cutaway model of a high-bypass turbofan engine. While we’re not sure ...

The engine in question is actually a 3D-printed model, designed by GE. Although its parts move in the same way as a real jet engine, it's scaled down, simplified, made of 3D printer material ...

Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment ... You do need a few ball bearings and some M2 hardware, but it is mostly 3D printed. True turbojets are most often found on military ...

Still in working order, the small engine was used for auxiliary power in aircraft such as the Falcon 20 business jet. Led by Prof ... with testing of a 3D-printed engine expected to take place ...

The GE9X is no ordinary jet engine. It is the world’s largest and most powerful commercial jet engine, developed by General Electric for the Boeing 777X aircraft. Boasting cutting-edge technology and ...

He added three jet engines to his Model S ... bake it, throw it on the 3D printer, clearance the 3D printer perfectly in order to write just two layers of material on there, have it stick ...

Beehive Industries, a company that 3D prints jet engines for unmanned military vehicles, will ramp up production at its Knoxville facility with the help of a new $12.4 million contract sponsored ...